In 1889, the Cheseborough, a merchant ship out of Bath, had just set sail for New York from Japan when it was caught in a typhoon. The ship wrecked on shoals, spilling its cargo of sulfur into the sea ...

Peter Miller and Merritt Casey helped start the Maine Aquaculture Co-op Maine's first scallop farming cooperative, at Millers' Wharf in Tenants Harbor. Father-and-son fishermen Marsden and Bob Brewer, ...

A Maine research team is investigating potential economic benefits of a scallop production technique called “ear-hanging,” in which scallops grow attached to lines hanging vertically in the ocean, as ...

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STONINGTON, Maine (WABI) - Maine’s wild scallop harvest is still a few months away, but a group of fishermen in Penobscot Bay can fish scallops year-round thanks to Maine’s growing aquaculture ...

Bangs Island Mussels’ farm manager Jon Gorman heads out on Casco Bay, off of Portland, Maine, in a blue and white fishing boat named Le Cozze (Italian for mussels). He motors past one of the rafts ...

Huge project by Norwegian-owned Scottish Sea Farms gets go-ahead amid concerns over the environmental cost of fish farming and threat to traditional way of life ...

An abundance of plumped-up bay scallops from waters around the Peconic Bay is giving Long Island’s East End shellfishing industry a vital boost. With the industry already thriving from a resurgence of ...

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If you don't love scallops, you probably just haven't had one that's cooked properly. That is, pan fried with some garlic and butter and herbs. They are very tasty. In Maine, scientists and fishermen ...